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Peter Hanlon

Peter Hanlon has worked at The Age since 1995, initially as deputy sports editor, subsequently as editor of the Saturday and Sunday Age sports sections, and since 2007 as a senior sports writer. He writes extensively on the AFL, and has also covered the Beijing Olympics and Delhi Commonwealth Games.

Peter Hanlon
John Bannon was watching his beloved South Australia defeat Northern Territory, against a MacDonnell Ranges backdrop that makes Albrecht Oval one of the most enchanting cricket grounds imaginable.

Peter Hanlon
When cricket's World Cup was last played in Australia and New Zealand, England met Sri Lanka on a March Monday at Ballarat's historic Eastern Oval. A crowd of 13,037 shoehorned itself into the ground.

Peter Hanlon
The 2015 Australian Open offered up the odd surprise - 11 locals reaching the second round, Venus Williams reaching the quarter-finals at 34, fluorescent pyjamas becoming the height of fashion.

Peter Hanlon
Ekaterina Makarova remembers a not-so-distant time when Russians so populated the vanguard of women's tennis that four would regularly feature in grand slam quarter-finals, a pair in the semis.

Peter Hanlon
Marcos Baghdatis reckons everyone in tennis, save for the elite few, knows how it feels to be lost. By arriving at the Australian Open via an Onkaparinga challenger event and some hit-and-giggle...

Peter Hanlon
It took less than two hours to convince his first-round opponent – and surely any who lie in his Australian Open path – that Rafael Nadal had been delving in a little Hamlet, whose mum,...

Peter Hanlon
Ever since John Maclean first donned big gloves and little pads, no matter if he was close enough to tip the bails off with a twitch of his `tash, it seemed Rod Marsh always managed to squeeze...